Edib Bajrovic is a correspondent in RFE/RL's Balkan Service.
Aerial crews are battling fires in Bosnia-Herzegovina, including a week-old inferno in the inaccessible Zelengora mountain range. Centuries-old trees and more than 150 hectares have been lost. Near Sarajevo, fire crews battle two other burns, racing against time during a hot, summer drought.
A rally has urged an end to hydroelectric projects on the Neretva River. Demonstrators gathered in the Bosnian city of Konjic on November 11 to protest the construction of the Ulog dam in Bosnia's Serb entity, Republika Srpska, by the Chinese state-owned Sinohydro company.
Bosnian honey is losing some of its luster as scammers put additives into their harvests. With honey production way down owing to bee population crashes, producers are getting creative with syrups and other impurities that end up in honey for sale. Meanwhile, quality control is weak.
Questions mounted quickly over how a local TV personality's fruit farm got a state contract to acquire 100 ventilators to help Bosnia fight the COVID-19 outbreak.
